start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

Disgust?

all appropriate responses

Whoever it is that owns HMV locally have just decided they don't want to keep paying the rent so have lined up somebody to take over the premises and are having a crash sale where all stock must go. I saw up to 70% discounts and all stock must go posters uup in the windows when I was just poping in there to browse for a few minutes.

Some of the staff in there have already been through the place closing rapidly a couple of years ago when it was in the premises facing its current location. So it must be very trying for them. Hope they can recover and get new jobs.

I'm assuming this is just something happening with the Galway premises. ON first seeing the posters i thought they might be repeating the events of a few years back and the firm folding nationwide.

Shame, we're running out of even semi decent places to buy music locally.

Other thing over here is the story that the government want to make An post into a bailiff service. So worried about reliability of getting things through mail order too. 2016 is already looking iffy.

Looks like this HMV thing is happening across this country. Grafton street closed today after it had been around all the time I've been in the country, with the possible exception of the months 3 or whatever years ago when the doors closed in all the Irish HMVs.
I used to kill time in there in the early 90s leafing through the racks and finding obscurities taht hadn't got separate dividers.
Found some great things there at the time. Wish I'd had the money and the time to9 go over there today and go through the racks.

Staff were told on Thursday that the shop in Galway was closing. Posters about the closing sale went up on Friday.
A girl behind the counter in there today said that it was 3 years to the day since they suddenly had the doors closed. I'm not sure of that timing since i thought it was a different time of year but I assume she must know.

& the only other place in town that does sell cds first hand, and isn't just a section of a supermarket, was reducing the prominence of their cd section since Xmas.

Shame really I liked being able to physically sort through cd racks.

Kitchen prep anger: slicing tubes into discs and having stuff roll off on the floor constantly (carrots, scallions, zucchini). I have pretty good knife skills and could zip through the prep if physics would just quit getting in my way, but I have to slow down to keep stuff on the cutting board. If there's a trick to this, I haven't learned it yet.

tilt the board backwards? and put something clean underneath it to catch the escapees?

Is it possible to get a cutting board that is textured enough to keep things still without attracting dirt?

Fucking physics in general, always making shit fall and roll and slip and whatever the fuck stupid shit it thinks is a good idea for some reason.

(This morning's example: tried twice to roll my rolling office chair forward only to have the front wheel catch and tip the chair forward instead. You can't get that one thing right, physics, really?)

Feel like there's an As Seen On TV product that could be of some help.

Slices of my finger rolling off the board onto the floor — cue helpless/aggrieved look.

Caption: "Fucking physics"

(Chopping vegetables, chopping vegetables, suddenly plunges knife into neck) There's got to be a better way!

"Choppin' broccolayyyy..."

Solution: stop eating vegetables

A possible solution to9 the rolling off cuttingboard thing might be to have 3 of the four sides have a raised edge to them. Not sure fi that hinders movement otherwise. Or if anybody selss anything like that.

My cookery teacher has us putting a teatowel under the choppingboard to prevent that moving on the table service but that may be widespread practise anyway.

I solve this problem by not chopping things into discs.

You could try and cut everything square so it doesn't roll of course. But that might not help your culinary project.

Calling the ground outside the floor.

I just apply the five second rule and dont tell anyone half the carits ended up on the floor.

Sponsored stories on news sites.

Composers posting MIDI demos of acoustic pieces on Soundcloud.

That stupid allegedly sexy/flirtatious finger-biting pose assumed on movie posters but never actually seen in real life, a la http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/image-base/Movies/W/When_in_Rome/posters/When%20in%20Rome%20movie%20poster%20Kristen%20Bell.jpg

Did you ever wish you could get that caraway seed out of your teeth?

FPd for hating Kristen Bell.

(Not her best poster, I'll grant.)

avocado egg rolls

when i click "remove bookmark from thread" instead of "bookmark"

friends who fly over to visit *only you* but "dont want to be a bother" about getting picked up from the airport

jfc it's a 20 min drive i'm not sending a horsedrawn fucking carriage

People willing to wait in line more than 45 minutes for restaurants need to re-evaluate their priorities, imo.

Dear wife of my so-called best friend: For the second year running, you have "forgotten" to invite me to your birthday drinks until the eleventh hour, because you "forgot" I'm not on twitter and wont see your posts there, despite the fact Ive not been on twitter and you have for many years now.

Dont toss a sulk when I have to decline because less than 24 hours notice on a Friday when i have kids means I might have other things on. Grr.

....probably not irrational at all, but eh.

FTR I'm loving parent Trayce.

People who say "this happened to x and I" instead of "this happened to x and me"

FTR I'm loving parent Trayce.

ikr!

still have some side-eye for her co-parent tho

me three!

<3 watchful mookie

Aw youse guys <3

where did "yaaaaaaaasssss" come from and has the perpetrator been murdered yet

I believe it came from black trans culture, which casts your question in a pretty depressing light.

yes cos clearly I knew that when I posted it.

probably one of those things that would be obvious if I heard it out loud rather than saw it typed by very not-back, not-transgendered people all over my feed

I believe it came from black trans culture, which casts your question in a pretty depressing light.

People from traditionally oppressed groups can be annoying as fuck sometimes, and it's okay to admit it.

I wasn't going for accusatory with my response, but if you dudes want to go with defensive then I guess that's fine.

I wasn't going for accusatory with my response

If true, this puts you among approximately .00000001% of ILX posters, so congrats.

if you dudes want to go with defensive then I guess that's fine

the other 99.999999% of ILX posters

errors in ebooks that i've paid money for. "High-gate" is one word. That it was split across lines in the hard copy version doesn't mean you can hyphenate it in the ebooks. "Myphonerang" is three words.

i'd submit fixes for these but i don't know where to.

oh yeah. in my experience ebooks are sloppy as shit.

navigating footnotes on iphone/ipad

Myphonerang should be a word tho

Businesses that offer free WiFi that doesn't work

^^ seriously the worst